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AES Hawaii Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Environment$123kEducation$114kFood & Nutrition$102kPhilanthropy$102kYouth Development$40kEmployment$25kHuman Services$10kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,530
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hawaii Agricultural Research Center$100,000
Makaha Learning Center$48,000
Searider Productions Foundation$25,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui$15,000
University of Hawaii Foundation$10,526
Living Pono Project$10,400
Kako o Oiwi$10,000
ClimbHI$5,530
Project Reach$5,000
Garden Island Resource Conservation & Development Inc$5,000
Trust for Public Lands$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Waianae Coast Community Foundation$2,880
Maui Huliau Foundation$2,500
K&K Farms Foundation$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Living Pono Project: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of AES Hawaii Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

AES Hawaii Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
2
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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7
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
8
Kaialahui Foundation

To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Kipuka Kuleana Inc

The mission of Kipuka Kuleana Inc. is to perpetuate ahupuaa (traditional Hawaiian land division) based natural resource management & connection to place through protection and care of cultural landscapes and family lands. Kipuka Kuleana…

Environment
11
Hoomahua Foundation

To support education primarily in the Waianae community on the island of Oahu. Support may included, but not be limited to, professional development, student support services, and community engagement. As educators on the Waianae coast,…

Education
12
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kakoo Oiwi and the most unlike its peers is Project Reach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%43%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%41%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
931/7,176

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $83,673 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…SEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropySEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUN…MAUI UNITED WAY — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAYUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $65,263 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII F…HO'OKAKO'O CORPORATION — $25,000 · EducationHO'OKAKO'O CORPORATIONCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $15,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAW…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationHAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER — $100,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AGRICULTURE R…Makaha Learning Center — $48,000 · OtherMakaha Learning CenterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MA…Kauai Community Science Center — $10,000 · OtherKauai Community Science …CLIMBHI — $5,530 · OtherKAKOO OIWI — $10,000 · OtherKAKOO OIWIPROJECT REACH INC — $5,000 · OtherLiving Pono Project — $10,400 · OtherLiving Pono Project+5 more — $12,380 · Other+5 moreNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $40,700 · Arts & CultureWAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $12,000 · EnvironmentGARDEN ISLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentKUPU — $25,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$123,673Education$107,763Food & Nutrition$100,000Other$116,310Arts & Culture$40,700Environment$32,000Youth Development$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $83,673 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $65,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $40,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKUPU — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHO'OKAKO'O CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Pono Project — $10,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKauai Community Science Center — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKAKOO OIWI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMBHI — $5,530 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGARDEN ISLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMaui Huliau Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Trustees of the Estat…Stupski FoundationAtherton Family Found…Council for Native Ha…Aloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…Silicon Valley Commun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Stupski Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization AES Hawaii Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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